Schema Builder: Category 7

Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed that my life has slowed down a lot. I’m sure that I’m not alone in this.

During the school year, every week feels like a rush to be everywhere and get everything done in time. Then, the weekend comes, and we can all breathe for a second before the marathon of tests and activities begins again on Monday. I honestly like being busy in a lot of ways; having a packed schedule keeps me motivated, and I genuinely enjoy the activities that I do.

Still, now that I have had so much extra free time, I am beginning to realize all of the simple things that I’ve been missing out on.

Before the Stay-at-Home orders, my friend and I (while staying far more than 6 feet apart) did sidewalk chalk with her younger sister. We drew pastel flowers and listened to music while reminiscing about all of the summers that we would sit outside and chalk our driveways.

Before I even picked up a piece of chalk, I checked the weather forecast; the day looked sunny and beautiful, but according to weather.com, in a few hours it would rain.  I decided to do chalk despite the fact that it would quickly wash away, and at first, that decision bothered me a little bit. It seemed almost pointless because I knew that I’d be putting in time to something so temporary.

As I began to draw flower after flower, however, I began to realize that it really didn’t matter if it soon washed away. I was outside on a sunny day doing chalk with my friend not for some sort of progress or outcome, but just for momentary fun. And that’s perfectly good.

Muskan Schema 2

Everyone has experienced a moment in their life where it feels like their life is over. Whether it’s a mistake they don’t think they’ll recover from, or a major change in their life. These moments feel like they’re trying to break the person down, trying to convince them that their life will never be the same now. 

In the words of Robert Frost, “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” No matter how hard the situation that you're going through is, life goes on. Life will work itself out in the end. That’s something we all need to remember, especially now. Even though life feels like it’s shutting down, we all need to remember that life goes on, and we will eventually get past this. 

The past, however many days, we’ve been in quarantine (I honestly don’t even remember how many days have past) have been driving everyone crazy to some degree. Lately, the situation doesn’t seem to be getting much better, and more and more weeks are being added to our stay at home order. It almost feels like we’ll never get out again.

Even though 2020 has been the year of absolute bad luck, we all need to remember that life goes on and that eventually, this will end; hopefully, 2021 will be a lot better. In general, being aware that one moment in time does not change one’s life for the worse is essential to living a happy life void of regret. We will all experience numerous occasions where we feel like our worlds are ending, but we all need to keep in mind that bad moments will pass, and life does eventually go on.

Alora Kutzler Schema 2

Throughout this Quarantine I have tried to figure out ways to distract myself, make the days go by faster. So I started cooking and baking. I started out by making a strawberry Cobbler. Which turned out to be a disaster because it was a bad recipe. It called for a very disturbing amount of salt which we came to the conclusion that it was supposed to be sugar. So I decided to try again, it was 10 at night but I was determined. I had a bunch of apples in the fridge that no one was eating so I decided to make homemade apple pie. I never did it before so I was really scared to make the dough but it came out perfectly. It was an absolute hit. So I decided once or twice a week I would try to either make dinner from scratch or dessert.

I would do it more but eggs,butter, etc are a hot commodity with this pandemic. I made homemade pizza for my family and it was so good, I want to do it more often. I then made a two tier chocolate mousse filled cake with chocolate icing. It was a challenge but It wasn't the worst.. Lastly I made chocolate chip cookie sandwiches with vanilla buttercream frosting. Those were my favorite. This quarantine is giving me a lot of time to make new things and try out new recipes.